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JustAnotherGen

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66. Naahh

Reply to southernyankeebelle (Reply #58)

Thu May 2, 2013, 12:25 PM

May 2013

It's the same. Your mother is from Naples - the Calabrese would consider that the South.

I have a friend whose family came from a Rome when she was a little girl and her eyebrows literally shot up when I told her where my then boyfriend was from.

If anything - the 'look down our nose at the poor Southerners' snottyness has actually gotten better the past 15/20 years according to my husband. Especially the past few years where they all have to pull together.

All I know is in Acri - my house on the hill? My husband's 'town' of 40K - I'm treated with kindness, respect, and curiousity.

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